Wet But Not Wintery

The temperature was mild but the atmosphere was humid and the rain came down very heavily quite a few times during the morning. This meant that the customers came in fits and starts.

In the long quiet spaces between customers, we ordered new stock. New lady's handbags and wallets, new snap button jewellery, new bamboo products, new knick knacks and pretty home decor products.

The next couple of weeks will be so much fun as the stock arrives. The Motivator will miss it all because she will be in Sydney having different kind of fun with family.

I kept the shop open for another hour after The Motivator left for home and a few people came in but they were all tyre kickers. They were all couples, so it's highly likely that the ladies will return next week while their husbands are fishing. That seems to be the norm around here - especially in holiday season.

When I got home, Adoring Husband and I began watching movies.

Shaun of the Dead - recommended by No. 1 Son. His only other recommendation was DeadPool and we all know how dreadful THAT was! Shaun of the Dead was not so horrific but it wasn't great either.

The second movie was The Greatest Showman. It was just as fabulous this time, as it was at the cinema the first time I watched it. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

The third movie was Georgia Rule with Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan.

The fourth movie is about to begin - Pretty Woman. I'm not sure if I can stay awake for all of it, but I'll give it a red hot crack!

If not, I'll go to bed and watch some Wimbledon until I fall asleep.

It seems there is a good little Aussie player by the name of Alex De Minaur playing Nadal and the commentators and other players have been raving about how great his potential is. I think I'll have to check him out and see if his demeanour is better than Kyrgios and Tomic.

I hope you all enjoy your Sunday.

Nite all.
 

Talking A Lot

That's what happened in the shop today.

Talking. Talking. Talking.

I don't mean The Motivator and I - although we DID talk a lot too - but we had very talkative customers today.

A couple of them took up a good chunk of our time telling us about everything and anything in their lives.

Comparatively speaking, it was fairly quiet in the shop today.

The Motivator worked on another project.

We put in an order with Luvnlife.

We registered with a new lady's bag/wallet supplier.

There was quite a bit of business talk so that I could catch up on all that's happened since Tuesday when I was last at work ... especially NBN stuff.

Adoring Husband turned up just before 3pm and helped us close the shop.

He dropped me at the club for my Friday night ritual, but their ATM was out of order and they tightly limited how much we could take from over the bar, Beauty and Beast were the only couple from our usual crowd in attendance, so I decided to return home. AH picked me up and I was sitting in my lounge chair well before 6.00pm.

I munched on some leftover chicken from last night's dinner and at 8.30pm I am now contemplating an early bedtime.

*yawn*

I was hoping to share a joke on here tonight, but I've lost it. Bugga.

Instead, here is a tiny snippet from the Tim Winton interview with Andrew Denton last week ...

Nite all.

My Weekend Has Ended

It's 4.37pm and I am still in bed, having worked all day on various things.

• Partially written our first newsletter
• Edited some of our website and watched some tutorials on the inner workings of it.
• Did a little research on creating my online course.
• Selected a date for a one day photography workshop.
• Read some more of one of The Gypsy's books.
• Started to write a description of the damaging rain events in our shop - to hopefully get things moving with our repairs.
• Had a mini nap
• Edited a couple of photos.
• Writing my blog post for the day.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the day, however, I didn't get any washing done ... oopsy!

It's been warm enough today that I've had the pedestal fan on since lunch time, but thankfully, Higgins Storm Chasers have advised that the weather will be taking it's second stint at trying to be Winter this weekend!

I'm excited.

It's time to climb out of bed to cook dinner - think I'll make a chicken curry.

Might throw a load of washing in the machine first.

I'm looking forward to being in The Happy Abode again tomorrow. Even though I enjoy my days off, I actually miss being in our shop.

Have a fabulous Friday!

Nite all.

One Down

I stayed in bed until 1.30pm today.

I made a 'to do' list which included things like

• work on The Happy Abode website
• work on the romanceyourlifewithroz website
• read Annemarie's books
• do some more DDT manifesting course
• create the next workshop
• create a newsletter for The Happy Abode
• do more with THA's instagram/twitter/pinterest accounts

... there is more on my list, but you get the gist. There is a LOT to work on. It's just a matter of time ie finding the time and using it effectively. I seem to get more done while sitting up in bed during the day, than at any other time!

The only reason I got out of bed at 1.30pm was because I had an appointment with The Gypsy to have a Zen Shiatsu massage at 2.15pm.

I was surprised at how many tight spots I had and how tender certain parts of my body were. She worked on all the parts that needed it and then gave me some stretches to practice to help gain more movement in the tightest parts such as my neck, hips and groin.

It seems that my kidneys, bladder, liver and heart are struggling at the moment. I will follow her advice and work on fixing these areas.

After my massage, Adoring Husband and I went for a short stroll along the beach so that I could do some grounding. We were only there for about ten or fifteen minutes, but I could feel the benefits, especially after taking my superhero pose in ankle deep sea water!

We did a little grocery shopping and then came home to rest for an hour before making a quick dinner and then getting ready for our trivia night at the club.

As always, we had a really enjoyable night with Tweedle Dee (new name yet to be decided) and the Garden King. None of us was feeling very clever tonight and came somewhere in the middle of the pack. The teams are only supposed to be four strong but there were a lot of teams with seven and eight members ... difficult to compete against.

Having said that - feeling clever helps - and we were not feeling it at all.

Tomorrow is my Sunday and I'm not sure how I'm going to spend it yet - perhaps I'll work on the websites.

The Motivator had a great day in the shop today and I hope that she can repeat that tomorrow.

I'm off to bed now.

Nite all.

My Weekend

Today is my Friday.

Wednesday and Thursday will be my weekend.

My plan for tomorrow is to stay in bed for as long as I want. Do some washing. See The Gypsy for a massage and perhaps go for a grounding walk along the beach.

Today was incredibly quiet in the shop for the first half of the day because there was a 'timbola' at the local hall from 9am - midday, so there were over 100 people in attendance there, which meant that they were NOT in our shop.

The afternoon was quite different as the people trickled in through the doors declaring that they'd heard about us at the timbola or saw somebody with one of our carry bags.

A large group of about ten people filled the shop for half an hour bringing an interesting energy and lots of busy chatter and noise.

One member of that group was a man with cerebral palsy in his 30s who lectured me because our pens didn't all have prices on them. We have the pens grouped in similar styles with one price placed in front of each group. He didn't like that idea and told me how it should be done. I thanked him for his excellent advice and agreed that we should do exactly as he suggested. He bought one of the pen sets.

I spent a lot of time cleaning all of our silver chains (about 20 of them) which took a bloody long time because I had to take the price tags off them first and then remove the hexagonal clasps. I dipped them in the silver cleaner and swished for ten seconds, then rinsed them under cold water, dried them off with a soft towel, reattached the clasps and replaced the price tags.

It took about 90 minutes, but now they are so shiny and sparkly clean!

I cleaned out one of the cube displays, dusted and replaced the stock.

One of our local artists, whose art we sell, dropped in some more of her work and I fell in love with and bought this ...

... it effects me emotionally! I just had to have it! The colours and the textures are stunning and I have no idea where I'm going to put it, but it's now MINE! I'm not sure about the black frame, so I'm going to look into some other options - I might visit my framer in town and see what suggestions he can come up with.

I'm happy that Wimbledon has now begun and I'm going to watch some of it before I head to bed tonight. Kyrgios is playing right now - I'm not his biggest fan, but he IS Aussie, so I will barrack for him.

Nite all.  

All Done In

It's been a big day!

I had a very early start for meditation, but along the way, I rode past Kindly Kel and had to stop to give him a hug. His eyes were looking so sad just a week after his Garden Fairy passed from this earth, so I needed to stop.

After a hug and a short chat, I had to cut the conversation short to get to work because I knew that The Gypsy was waiting for me to open the doors for her.

We had a good meditation class this morning that generated lots of conversation and triggered some great revelations.

It was a very slow start to the day, but by 10am the customers were coming thick and fast.

Adoring Husband came to visit twice, but I was too busy to stop and chat.

Considering most of the businesses along our strip were closed today, we had a very successful Monday in the shop and I seemed to spend a lot of time chatting to the male partners as the women browsed and made their selections.

I put together a box of goodies from the shop, valued at over $100, that we are going to give away as a prize on our Facebook page.

We have almost reached 300 'likes', so to promote our page and our shop, we are going to challenge people to share our post and tag their friends until we reach 300. At that point we will choose a winner.

The Gypsy's last appointment went a little over time and by the time I pulled everything in, closed the door and did my groceries, I didn't arrive home until after 4pm, by which time Adoring Husband was all dressed up and ready to leave the house for a big SES meeting tonight.

I made myself some stuffed mushrooms with a pork snag for dinner which was very satisfying and now I'm ready for bed at just after 8.30pm!

I'm well and truly done in and I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep ready for coffee morning with the girls tomorrow.

Nite all.

Unlazy Sunday

There was no lazing all day in bed today.

The date was made with friends to attend breakfast at the local cafe at 8.30am, so we were up and at'em much earlier than the usual Sunday.

I enjoyed a plate of bacon and fried mushrooms with GF toast and a GIANT mug of latte. Everybody ordered something different and it was a really enjoyable and relaxing morning with good food, good coffee and good friends.

We said our goodbyes and both Adoring Husband and I had missions that we needed to complete before we return home to enjoy a relaxing Sunday.

We needed to take photos of the communal toilets at the shops where lots of repairs, repainting and renewing need to be done. AH had to send them through to the 'powers that be'

Following that, we had to attach a big Happy Abode sign to a fence near our shop, so that took about twenty minutes and then we were free to enjoy our Sunday.

Our day was spent on Netflix.

It was great!

Yesterday I got a message that it was the last day of our Flickr challenge, so I logged into Flickr to find out what the challenge was. It was 'Negative Space' so I put a quick pic together and submitted it. I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm having an early-ish night ready for an early meditation start tomorrow.

Nite all.